The Grumpy IT Admin

Didn't think I would have to revisit this one so soon. Our Exchange servers were patched up to date with Windows patches and lo and behold all hell breaks loose. Nothing major just users can't connet to their mailboxes from Outlook, again. OWA is fine, it's just Outlook shows as off line, except for users in cached mode, or users that tried 20 times to connect... or that user sitting over there. Moved some affected users to cached mode and all was well again for them, not me though, tried cached and non cached and no joy, tried and new profile and got straight in, back to old profile and no joy, was it the PC updates that went out last night? Well affected users were on a different patching schedule to me so probably not. It must be the patches applied to the Exchange server, we had this last time they were patched with Roll-up 3. So we dropped the one of the CAS servers out of the (load balanced) cluster and rebooted it, dragged it back in and then did teh same w

To do this for Windows 7 and server 2008R2 you need to do the following ·          Pick a 2008 R2 server ·          Apply the 2008 R2 KMS licence key for the server (see below for which one). Do not under any circumstances apply any other licence key. ·          To apply the key type the following at an Admin command prompt o    slmgr.vbs -ipk <KMS key> That’s should be it For Office 2010 do the following 1.        Download and run the KeyManagementServiceHost.exe file on this page on a supported operating system. ( \\codms-1\Apps\Office 2010 ) 2.        Enter your Office 2010 KMS host key when prompted. 3.        Click OK to continue with activation. 4.        Open port 1688 and allow the KMS host service through the firewall. a.        Windows 7 volume editions or Windows Server 2008 R2.                                                                i.       Open Control Panel and click on the Windows Firewall icon.